win xp pro: bootmgr compressed

[Passerby]

hmm doesn't seem to have worked but i have now hacked my registory and gained acces to repair console, but even running fixmbr and fixboot still leave me with the bootmgr is compressed error.
Is there likely yo be an eneter in the registry that needs to be deleted?

can you tell me more about our partition setup, like which drive windows is on and what partiton is it installed to.

 

[Davethegreat]

I applogise for that my boss walked past,

If you boot off the windows XP cd, and in recovery console, type

CD \
ATTRIB -C NTLDR"

Will uncompress it, and should fix the issue.

Dave

 

[Passerby]

I applogise for that my boss walked past,

If you boot off the windows XP cd, and in recovery console, type

CD
ATTRIB -C NTLDR"

Will uncompress it, and should fix the issue.

Dave

it does sound like the mbr is still pointed to the win7 install that he deleted since it is referencing to bootmgr not ntldr

so add
fixmbr

 

[Davethegreat]

Bootmgr, is also used in windows xp load after windows 7 is installed, as the way ntldr loads has been changed.

uncompressing the ntldr loader should fix the issue, and its worth a try.

 

[Ice hearted killer]

ok dave just done that il reboot and report back. Might doing bootcfg /redirect be an idea? possibley /redirect NTLDR ?
Edit: nope still doesn't work, i might try that redirect idea

 

[Passerby]

ok dave just done that il reboot and report back. Might doing bootcfg /redirect be an idea? possibley /redirect NTLDR ?
Edit: nope still doesn't work, i might try that redirect idea

try this

Ok to fix the mbr from the liunx cd
run in the terminal (the console is in the application menu under accessories)

wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/ms-sys/ms-sys_2.1.0-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i ms-sys_2.1.0-1_i386.deb

this will install the needed package.

And the final step
run

sudo ms-sys -m /dev/sda

now reboot and try to get windows going.

this guide assumes that windows xp is on your primary harddrive if it is on the 2nd drive replace "/dev/sda" with "/dev/sdb"

 

[Ice hearted killer]

i gave up and reinstalled xp, or more i just finished installing it after having to reformat and partion my drives.

Thanks for the help pretty pissed it ended up like this but what can you do?